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. AGENCY: FBI
“RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10291-10236
RECORD SERIES: HQ
"AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 97-4546-9
. Document Information
ORIGINATOR: CIA
FROM: CIA
TO:
&
TITLE :
DATE: — 10/24/1961
PAGES: 2
SUBJECTS :
MR, MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO, ACA,
- INTERNAL RESISTANCE
DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION : — Secret
RESTRICTIONS: 1B
CURRENT STATUS:  Redact
DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 06/11/1998"
OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA
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-793 cand: 724, the -transmission. or wevalation: :Of «which in :any=mannerifo ian unauthorized jperson is iprohibited ‘by law.

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

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/ er TATEMENTS .OF iMANOLA “RAY, JEX(LE oN ‘DATE DISTR. oe) &
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| ;DATE OF OCTOBER 961. : “cla S. Je _ REFERENCES | noe pctv TOT TONY
. NENGLAND, | LONDON (2h ocrosen 1964) . . : a - RSP)

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RELEASE OF CiA iMPORM

IN THIS DOCUMENT,

“he ‘MANOLO.. RAY, EXILE ‘LEADER “OF ‘MOV IMLENTO- REVOLUCI ONARIO
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DEL PUEBLO “(MRP :- sREOPLE'S ‘REVOLUT LONARY MOVEMENT.) SALD. AN.

ECL ASSIFICATION A

EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE ° WAS “PERMLY OPPOSED TO ANY INVASLON OF ‘CUBA

ANSISTING THAT “CASTROXS OVERAHROW ” WAS TO :BE _AGHIENED ‘BY Inte

| “RES. STANCE. AND ‘THI'S HAD «ALREADY. STARTED.
f 2, “THE MRP “WAS ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT THE ‘ISLAND AND “SUPPORTED oom

}  °BY “ALL CLASSES OF “THE (POPULATWON. IT ‘HAD MEMBERS -LN ALL 33
| JTRADE UNIONS, THE G-2, cMILAT(A AND THROUGHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION. ¢
“RAY -ESTIMATED .S0 ‘PERCENT. ‘OF -PORULAT TON WERE ‘OFPOSED TO CASTRO,

THOUGH MAJORITY - WERE :NOT » ACTIVELY SO, JHE CONSTDERED THE MRP AT

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| PRESENT ENJOYED “MORE ‘SUPPORT THAN THE ORIGINAL paeare an HAD Ss

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HAD. AGAINST BATISTA. ON INTELL OY. —
3. THE MRP WAS “PRESENTLY. ‘SHORT OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES BUT THE
| POSITION WAS IMPROVING. (A MILITIA CAPTAIN WAS RECENTLY -
| SENTENCED TO-30.YEARS IN PRISON FOR PASSING ARMS TO THE MRP).
| NO HELP. WHATSOEVER, HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE
| FROM THE "SOURCES IN THE UNLTED STATES, WHO PROVIDED SUPPORT
FOR THE INVASION", THESE SOURCES WERE STILL THINKING
|NEFFECTUALLY. IN TERMS OF A FURTHER INVASION,

4, THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF: THE RESISTANCE IN CUBA TOWARDS oe |

THE EXILES WAS ONE OF INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR |

SPECIFIC MOVES SUCH AS THE PROPOSED PROMOTION OF A CUBAN GOVT | ~
IN EXILE. WHAT THE RESISTANCE WANTED WAS FUNDS AND THE RETURN, |
BY MITE TRAINED EXILES, PARTICULARLY COMMUNI CATION : ;
EXPERTS. a - . _ | |
5+ ON THE TIMING OF CASTRO'S OVERTHROW, “RAY SAID CASTRO WOULD |
“NOT LAST ANOTHER YEAR, HE ADDED THAT THE SITUATION IN CUBA a

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CASTROIS DOWNFALL. WOULD BE DANGEROUS AND COULD ~ .
DEVELOP INTO A CIVIL WAR. —

6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE. CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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